Go For Graduation Challenge
The "Go for Graduation" Scholarship program, now entering its third year, is designed to help BSC students who need special financial assistance to complete their final year of college and graduate.

Bridge and Lane Closure
As the Martin Luther King Bridge will be closing beginning Friday, June 5, please use caution when traveling to and from campus. The Route 52 entrance will be temporarily closed through the Martin Luther King bridge replacement project. An alternate route along Hill Street has been established.

School of Nursing & Allied Health
The School of Nursing and Allied Health offers degrees in nursing and radiologic technology. Programs offered include: baccalaureate and associate degrees in nursing, baccalaureate in radiologic sciences, and the associate degree in radiologic technology.

The W. Paul Cole, Jr. School of Business
The School of Business at Bluefield State College offers a variety of programs. Students in the four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration program must complete the requirements of two specializations chosen from: accounting, management, marketing, or computer science.

School of Education
The School of Education offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Elementary Education (K-6) or Early/Middle Education. The program prepares graduates to teach at the Elementary (K-6) grade level and/or the Middle School (5-9) grade level in one of four required areas of specialization: English/Language Arts, Mathematics, General Science, and Social Studies.

School of Engineering Technology & Computer Science
Students graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science are prepared for positions as systems analysts, software designers, network professionals, and webmasters depending on the education path taken.

Bluefield State College
Bluefield State College was established as a black teachers college by an act of the West Virginia Legislature in 1895 and was integrated after 1954. By the 1960's the College had a comprehensive four-year program of teacher education, arts and sciences, and engineering technology. Gradually a variety of two-year technical programs evolved in response to local needs.

Dr. James Walters discusses DNA molecule structure with an interested young student during the Bluefield State College Biomedical Club’s presentation at Princeton’s Fourth of July Celebration. Dr. Amanda Matoushek works with a student to create a “brain hat” during the Bluefield State College Biome...

(Bluefield)—A $23,000 grant award from the West Virginia Department of Education & the Arts will provide a valuable and substantial boost to the Bluefield Professional Development Schools (PDS) consortium. The Bluefield PDS focuses upon enhancing the preparation of teacher education candidates, enh...

ss Bluefield State College President Dr. Marsha Krotseng (center) and her husband, Mr. Lee Krotseng (right) recently presented a $12,000 check to the Bluefield State College Foundation in support of the “Go For Graduation Challenge” at BSC. Betty Carroll (left), BSC Foundation Executive Director, r...

The minutes were approved as distributed with no corrections (Richardson/Barilla) for April.

The minutes for the May meeting were approved (Guyton/Neel).

There was no old business with the exception of some briefings by the Chair. She also took time out to thank Tom Harrison, Vice-Chair for carrying out the April Meeting.

Mercer County Board of Education is considering a four day work week. Discussion followed.

New Business:

•We are at the point to where we need to start looking at the attendance policy. The members are not showing up and we need to put together a letter because two had not shown up for one year and it could cause a problem of not having a quorum when we need to vote on something. Discussion followed. If everyone is okay with it, the chair will type up a letter and send it to them and wait for the response.

•New River is advertising for the following positions:

o VP of Financial and Administrative Affairs

o Financial Aid Director

o Registrar

o Director of Admissions

o Director of Public Relations

o Director of Computer Services

They also signed an agreement with Concord University. Discussion followed.

•Voting—Do we need to set up guidelines for the voting process? Discussion followed. It was suggested that we ponder for the next meeting. The Chair said that she would speak with Carol and Michelle to see if they have criteria. Discussion followed.

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Reports

There was a question as to whether or not the Safety Committee has recently met? It was discussed that there would be ID badges for everyone. Discussion followed.

Discussion of letter going to Dr. Walker from the Chair—there was a discussion as to why the letter was written and when it was brought up in Staff Council. There was a lengthy discussion to follow.

Meeting adjourned at 11:30 am. Next meeting: July 16, 2008.

Submitted by,

Lisa Neel, Classified Council Chair

Deirdre Guyton, Recording Secretary

Board of Governors—no report

Personnel Development—approved requests. Tuition has been raised to $1,250.00, but may go back to $1,200.00 depending on funding.

ACCE—nothing going on right now.

Flower fund—reported by $393.61. Also, received a thank you card from the family of June Shott.